Monoprinting

ciao!

some studio days

are very productive..

even though

I never finish a piece of work...

some days

are all about creating elements

 to use 

in my work...

just making a stash of beautiful papers...

to rip up or use whole in

a collage or a painting...

and while I don't really have anything finished..

it still feels great to have 

some awesome images to use...

The plate and the print above..

monoprinting

creates basically one print..

from a plate..

in this case I used

 cardboard covered with tin foil..
non stick, for those inquiring minds out there...

to serve as my plate

and I covered them with acrylic paints

using both a pencil and a feather quill

to subtract the paint and 

write and indent on the 

tin plate

and I used a lot of brown kraft paper

for the first go around..

and finished with

antique book pages..

What I love about monoprinting 

is that each print is unique 

and totally different..

and you never know what you have until you

lift the print..

Next week I will have 

a quick post before we leave on our 

great adventure..

thank you as always for 

stopping by,

leaving your comments..

and lurking lovingly..

here at the sweet life..

xo